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Elite is a space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984. Elite's open-ended game model, and revolutionary 3D graphics led to it being ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history. The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite". Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D grap…
- Released
- 1984
- Genres
- Shooter, Simulator, Strategy
- Platforms
- Acorn Archimedes, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, Acorn Electron, DOS, Tatung Einstein, Amiga, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, Nintendo Entertainment System
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Acornsoft, Frontier Developments, David Braben, Ian Bell
- Publisher
- Hybrid Technology, Firebird, Merlin Software U.K., Imagineer, Acornsoft
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Author
- Robert Holdstock
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Developer
- Ian Bell
- Platform
- SAM Coupé
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Distribution format
- floppy disk
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- publication date
- 1991-00-00
- input device
- computer keyboard
- language of work or name
- English language
- digital rights management system
- Lenslok
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